we might offer as governor. just a brief comment before i turn it over to you, mr. president. i want to say personally i have enjoyed working with you when i was in congress and head of the dea and i appreciate your leadership and thank you so much for giving us the time today to hear from us. but also so we can hear from you personally about the challenge that we face. so mr. president, the microphone is yours, thank you, president biden. president biden: thank you very much. look, there is no federal solution. this gets solved state level. i am looking at governor sununu on the board here talks about it a lot. where the rubber meets the road and where the patient is in need of help or preventing the need for help. look, thank you for what you are doing. thank you for national governors association and vice chair murphy across the river. all is well in new jersey, i
which was to stop construction of the keystone pipeline, another was to stop construction of the border wall and open our borders. they are dealing with multiple crises at the same time but still trying to push through this progressive agenda which their bipartisan support both in the senate and the house against this bill. senator joe manchin has been very clear he would not vote for the bill. so essentially here you seem to be saying that president biden would be doing a big workaround congress if he went ahead and tried to push through his agenda via executive action but it wouldn t really have the sort of thrust of statutory authority here, right? what are his options? some kind of executive order? that doesn t carry the weight of law. precisely. there is appropriations. where would he get the appropriations in order to support the build back better? meanwhile we have people have rising inflation, people are paying higher prices at the gas pump. they re paying higher prices at